Stove-cover stand



H. CARSLEY.

Stove Cover Screen.

No. 18,321. Patented Oct. 6, 1857.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

HIRAM CARSLEY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOVE-COVER STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,321, dated October 6, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM CARsLEY, of

Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have inventedan Improved Household Utensil, denominated the Stove- Cover Screen; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, which form a part of this specification, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, of which drawings Figure 1, is an isometricalView; Fig. 2, a vertical front elevation and Fig. 8, a plan.

Like letters indicate the same part in all the figures.

The object to be accomplished is let, to secure asuitable receptacle forthe covers of a cooking stove, or range, &c., while the holes to whichthey belong were being used; 2d, to have it so constructed as to be convenient to take the covers from and replace them with the commonremovable or other similar handles; 3d, to have it so constructed as tobe easily taken apart and packed closely for transportation; 4th, so asto sufficiently protect the floor, stove, top of covers, and otherarticles with which the covers are liable to come in contact, from smut,&c.; 5th, so as to require but little weight of material in themanufacture.

As an article of this kind must necessarily be made of some fire proofmaterial, the covers often being very hot, so much so as to burn anyother, it has been found quite diflicult to get a plan on which toconstruct an article suited to this purpose which would not require morematerial than could be afforded in their manufacture, this being anarticle which to be introduced into general use must be sold very cheap,not because of little utility but because people have so long donewithout it that they think they can still.

I have succeeded in producing an article unique, compact, and yetsufliciently capacious; so arranged as to protect the tops of thecovers, the floor and other adjacent articles from smut detached fromthe covers while lying off from the stove, &c., the construction ofwhich is as follows: I make four, more or less, shelves of a circularform or in the form of a polygon of six or more sides so as toapproximate to the circular form. These shelves are made very thin andprovided, each with the space a in the front edge; it is also well butnot indispensable for them to have a small flange d around their outeredge to stiffen them; this flange if on the upper side of the shelfshould terminate at the sides of the space a, it will in such a casekeep the smut from falling off from the shelves until brushed off whichmay readily be done between the ends of the flange at space a. It-isperhaps as well however to have the flange on the under side of theshelves as shown in the drawing, and in either case the falling off ofthe smut is provided for by making the base larger than the shelves overit which improves the appearance, gives stability to the article, thefeet being attached near its outer edge and, being provided with aflange around its outer edge on the upper side it forms a pan into whichwhatever falls from the edges of the shelves is received and soprevented from falling on the floor. The shelves, each beingprovidedwith the space a in the front edge to receive the embossment usuallyfound on the under side of stove covers opposite the socketfor thehandle and also to make room over each cover as it lies upon its shelfto allow the handle room to enter its socket in the cover withouttouching the shelf, are secured together by three rods which are soarranged as to form the necessary guards to keep the covers in theirplaces upon the shelves. These rods pass through holes made for thepurpose in the shelves and pedestals c, and are provided each with anut. Sleeves or pedestals c, are placed between the shelves and are of asuitable length to determine the proper depth of space between theshelves. By means of the rods and nuts the whole may be screwed upfirmly 'for use, or be readily unscrewed, taken apart, and packed invery small compass for transportation.

Having thus described my improved stovecover screen, what I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

The improved stove-cover screen, composed of a series of shelves eachprovided with the space a, and arranged in combination with therelatively enlarged, and flanged, base '7), substantially in the mannerand for the purposes set forth.

HIRAM CARSLEY. lVitn esses:

D. N. B. CorrIN, Jr., JOHN P. WOODBURY.

